While it may use up a lot of space in the book, all that explanation of
how dogs and wolves are different ultimately helps us to fully understand why using the «pack mentality» and dominance approach to how one deals with their dog is not appropriate or necessarily productive.
The problem with much of the research on domestication is that the focus has been on
how dogs and wolves interact with humans.
Not exact matches
Scientists agree that
dogs stem from
wolves, but where, when
and how many times
dogs were domesticated — passing down tameness
and other traits over generations — has been rethought many times in the last few years (SN: 7/8/17, p. 20).
For decades scientists have debated
how, where
and when the
wolf became the
dog.
Considering
how long it took for
dogs to be domesticated — the oldest doglike skeletal remains were found in central Russia
and date to 15,000 years ago, perhaps a million years after the first
wolves appeared — the foxes settled down quickly.
But even if we can one day say, with confidence, when
and where
and how many times an ancestral
wolf became a
dog, we'll still have only half of the story.
The results have been published in the scientific journal Hormones
and Behavior
and contribute to our knowledge of
how dogs have changed during their development from
wolf to household pet.
Scientists from the Messerli Research Institute at the Vetmeduni Vienna studied
how well
dogs can discriminate between different quantities
and discovered that
wolves perform better than
dogs at such tasks.
Linnaeus» system also showed
how similar animals — such as
dogs and wolves, for example — could be grouped together.
Researchers examined DNA data from grey
wolves - the ancestors of the domestic
dog — to determine
how much their gene pool was diluted with the DNA of domestic canines,
and how widespread the process of hybridisation is.
War
Dogs has the air of The
Wolf of Wall Street
and The Big Short as it is further proof of the obsession many young men have with money
and power
and how far it takes them before it all comes crashing down on them.
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and Gone by Kat Rosenfield
And When She Was Good by Laura Lippman Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk by Ben Fountain Don't Ever Get Old by Daniel Friedman Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story by D.T. Max Happiness Is a Chemical in the Brain by Lucia Perillo HHhH by Laurent Binet Let's Pretend This Never Happened by Jenny Lawson Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake by Anna Quindlen New Ways to Kill Your Mother by Colm Tóibín No One is Here Except All of Us by Ramona Ausubel Red Ruby Heart in a Cold Blue Sea by Morgan Callan Rogers Say Nice Things About Detroit by Scott Lasser Tell the Wolves I'm Home by Carol Rifka Brunt The End of Your Life Book Club by Will Schwalbe The Liar, the Bitch and the Wardrobe by Allie Kingsley The People of Forever Are Not Afraid by Shani Boianjiu There Is No Dog by Meg Rosoff This Book Is Full of Spiders: Seriously, Dude, Don't Touch It by David Wong This Is How You Lose Her by Junot Díaz What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank by Nathan Englander Where'd You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple Why Be Happy When You Could Be Norm
And When She Was Good by Laura Lippman Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk by Ben Fountain Don't Ever Get Old by Daniel Friedman Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story by D.T. Max Happiness Is a Chemical in the Brain by Lucia Perillo HHhH by Laurent Binet Let's Pretend This Never Happened by Jenny Lawson Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake by Anna Quindlen New Ways to Kill Your Mother by Colm Tóibín No One is Here Except All of Us by Ramona Ausubel Red Ruby Heart in a Cold Blue Sea by Morgan Callan Rogers Say Nice Things About Detroit by Scott Lasser Tell the
Wolves I'm Home by Carol Rifka Brunt The End of Your Life Book Club by Will Schwalbe The Liar, the Bitch
and the Wardrobe by Allie Kingsley The People of Forever Are Not Afraid by Shani Boianjiu There Is No Dog by Meg Rosoff This Book Is Full of Spiders: Seriously, Dude, Don't Touch It by David Wong This Is How You Lose Her by Junot Díaz What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank by Nathan Englander Where'd You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple Why Be Happy When You Could Be Norm
and the Wardrobe by Allie Kingsley The People of Forever Are Not Afraid by Shani Boianjiu There Is No
Dog by Meg Rosoff This Book Is Full of Spiders: Seriously, Dude, Don't Touch It by David Wong This Is
How You Lose Her by Junot Díaz What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank by Nathan Englander Where'd You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
Bonus Book Recommendation: The Hour Between
Dog and Wolf:
How Risk Taking Transforms Us, Body
and Mind
It doesn't matter if owners consider their
dogs as
wolf cousins or furry children if the relationship is smooth
and the adaptations made as a matter of course, but if Fido's natural tendencies are unacceptable in any way, remedies depend on understanding
how and why the behavior exists so that it can be modified.
Some
dog fanciers describe this behavior in terms used by biologists to explain
wolf interactions — they toss around terms such as «pack dynamics»
and «dominance hierarchy» to explain
how dogs see the world.
But we do take them to
dog parks,
and they DO live with their «parent alpha» until they die, both things are unnatural, so once again, we do have to see
how they behave in this captivity or domesticated state
and take note on
how to handle it better because this is in fact
how dogs live with us in reality, just like those
wolves in captivity.
The researchers have shipped in
dogs from Europe to see
how well they guard sheep in Eastern Oregon from
wolves and other predators.
To test the breeds, Young plans on tracking them
and some of the animals they're protecting using GPS collars
and seeing
how the
dogs react to a fake
wolf coming near the livestock.
It is also only through recent studies comparing the behaviour of
dogs and hand reared
wolves that we have seen
how only
dogs have evolved to follow a human point when looking for something or to seek human help when they can't open a box with food in it.
That said, for those of us who have heard again
and again that
dogs are just domesticated
wolves living in a «pack» of humans —
and who hasn't heard that more times than you can count, thanks to the popularization of the concept on TV — it might be helpful to learn all the scientific reasoning behind
how wolves and dogs are different (
and how we misunderstood
wolves and their pack interactions for a very, very long time), why those «alpha
dog» approaches aren't the best way to relate to your
dog (
and in fact, can even cause more problems),
and why alternate approaches like positive reinforcement
and reading the body language of a
dog as a
dog and not a mini
wolf do work.
Alpha is one of those fun words that stick, maybe because it sounds good on tv
and makes a fun story in print where we really get to be in control that has nothing to do in fact with
how wolves or
dogs live.
I expect a
wolf to win but I have heard of golden retrievers fighting a cougar to protect there owners
and... [Read more...] about
How would a german shepherd
dog fair against a
wolf?
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Dogs evolved from
wolves more than 11,000 years ago, somewhere in Eurasia, though exactly when
and how is under debate.
▪ HSVB&IRC
and its role in the community ▪ History of the humane movement ▪ Lost & Found Pets - the importance of proper identification ▪ Pets in rental
and condominium housing:
How renters
and landlords / HOA's can find common ground ▪ Living with urban wildlife ▪ Resolving nuisance wildlife concerns ▪ Disaster preparation for pets ▪ Pet first aid
and CPR ▪ Spaying / Neutering (Adults
and Children) ▪
Dog bite prevention - for schools, communities, professionals and the general public (Adults and Children) ▪ Problems pertaining to breed - specific legislation ▪ Animal abuse and its link to domestic violence ▪ Animal abuse and its link to child abuse ▪ Animal abuse and its link to school violence ▪ The problem of hybridized pets (wolf / dog and exotic / domestic cats) and exotic pets ▪ Animal hoarding: A community problem ▪ Preventing pet theft ▪ Greyhounds and problems with greyhound racing ▪ Pet - proofing your home ▪ Paws Come with Claws: Scratching behavior in cats and alternatives to declawing ▪ Safe travel with pets ▪ Pets and the military (what to do if deployed) ▪ General issues pertaining to humane care of companion anim
Dog bite prevention - for schools, communities, professionals
and the general public (Adults
and Children) ▪ Problems pertaining to breed - specific legislation ▪ Animal abuse
and its link to domestic violence ▪ Animal abuse
and its link to child abuse ▪ Animal abuse
and its link to school violence ▪ The problem of hybridized pets (
wolf /
dog and exotic / domestic cats) and exotic pets ▪ Animal hoarding: A community problem ▪ Preventing pet theft ▪ Greyhounds and problems with greyhound racing ▪ Pet - proofing your home ▪ Paws Come with Claws: Scratching behavior in cats and alternatives to declawing ▪ Safe travel with pets ▪ Pets and the military (what to do if deployed) ▪ General issues pertaining to humane care of companion anim
dog and exotic / domestic cats)
and exotic pets ▪ Animal hoarding: A community problem ▪ Preventing pet theft ▪ Greyhounds
and problems with greyhound racing ▪ Pet - proofing your home ▪ Paws Come with Claws: Scratching behavior in cats
and alternatives to declawing ▪ Safe travel with pets ▪ Pets
and the military (what to do if deployed) ▪ General issues pertaining to humane care of companion animals
Poco a Poco is story full of colorful characters where kids will learn about «the come
and go» people
and enjoy the story of
how wolves became
dogs and how they help humans listen to their hearts.
It was an honor
and a privilege to meet this
wolf and made me think about
how much we can learn from the
wolf, as the animals
and species from which
dogs descended.
Dogs definitely aren't
wolves and can probably handle more starch than their wild counterparts, but
how much is too much?
NATURE's two - part special
Dogs That Changed the World tells the epic story of the wolf's evolution, how «man's best friend» changed human society and how we in turn have radically transformed d
Dogs That Changed the World tells the epic story of the
wolf's evolution,
how «man's best friend» changed human society
and how we in turn have radically transformed
dogsdogs.